How game changing is 3D touch?

[UnholyCarcass]

Is it worth upgrading to the 6s from the 6 for the specs and 3D touch alone?

 

[TheStu]

Just for 3D Touch? No.

How much is it going to cost you to switch from the 6 to the 6S? The S is faster than the 6 in basically every way and has improved longevity due to its 2GB of RAM vs the 6's 1GB.

3D Touch is cool, and I'm enjoying it, but RIGHT NOW, there's not a whole lot to do with it yet. I'm pretty bullish about it, and am really looking forward to seeing what can be done with it, especially once developers have really had a chance to work with it.

 

[Eug]

Is it worth upgrading to the 6s from the 6 for the specs and 3D touch alone?

For 3D Touch alone? Definitely not. For 2 GB RAM alone? Probably not. For Live Photos alone? Probably not. For faster speed? Probably not.

For all of the above together? Maybe, if it doesn't cost you too much to upgrade.

How game changing is 3D touch?

So far, my wife isn't a big fan. She finds it more annoying than helpful, to be honest. For me, the jury is still out on this one. Perhaps once more apps support it and all apps support it more consistently, I'll like it more, but right now it seems rather gimmicky. In fact, since I have two little kids, I find Live Photos much more compelling than 3D Touch right now.

 

[Midwayman]

I can see 3d touch being a big thing. Think right click on your PC coming to an iphone. Contextual menus are a pretty huge deal. However not enough supports it right now. Also you do have to do some fine tuning to get to set to a level that you don't accidently set it off. 3d touch tuning should have been part of the phone setup wizard like touch ID or hey siri is.

 

[Stuka87]

The force touch on my MBP is amazing, I love it. As more things start to use the force touch on the iPhones, it will start to become second nature to use it. Then if you happen to go back to another phone, you will realize just how much you use it.

 

[Aikouka]

I mostly use it for the cursor movement feature, but one problem with the cursor movement feature is that just like with a trackpad, you have a limited space. This means that you need to be conscientious of where you want to move the cursor to, and if you want to highlight, how much you want to highlight. There have been a few times where I simply couldn't highlight more because I hit the edge of the screen. Unlike a laptop, I can't just continue to hold SHIFT, lift up my hand and place it back onto the touchpad.

 

[cruiser1338]

Simply, yes.

If this is a one off purchase that you'd don't intend to replace for a few years the hot e6s is a safe purchase. If you're likely to buy next year's iPhone as well, then it might be worth sticking with what you have. Then again...

The S lines of iPhones are the ones that keep compatibility with the current iOS. iPhone 5S is still a current phone thanks to having Touch ID. It doesn't matter that it's the first generation Touch ID sensor, what matters is that it has one. It's also a 64-bit chip inside, keeping it up to date with the current processors. The resolution of the display is still being supported today, thanks to Split View and Auto Layout. The hardware is still supported, because it lacks nothing that today's iPhones have.

The 6s changes that with 3D Touch. Apples smallest device, the Watch, has a version of it, all the newest MacBook's have a Force Touch (forget the Air, the new MacBook replaces that) trackpad and it is destined to be in the iPad, Magic Trackpad and everywhere else with the next revision. Apple doesn't mess around when they say that 3D Touch is as important as multitouch. The 6s has at least another four years of software updates ahead, and the move to 2GB of RAM is another signpost. Apple is establishing a hardware baseline in their current gen products, which is 2GB of RAM for iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4 and iPhone 6s. 3D Touch is Apples big contribution in hardware, and it will be important like Touch ID has been and multitouch before that.

The history of multitouch followed much the same trajectory. First, two finger scrolling trackpads in iBooks and PowerBooks, not unlike the appearance of true multi depth multitouch in the new MacBook and then the MacBook Pro line. Then it came to the iPhone, sand then multitouch scaled to the iPad. There's no reason to think 3D Touch will be any different, moving to the iPad line with the next revision and setting a new baseline, like the 5s did with Touch ID.

 

[sourceninja]

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[chin311]

I don't like the 3d touch on the new iphone. I can't get a feel for it even after a week of using it. Honestly I don't see or feel any improvement over my iphone 6.

Yeah, at this point it's not very well supported so it's kinda cool but not being utilized. I've only really used it to shortcut to a text message or make a quick phone call but other than that it is kinda "meh".

 

[Ichigo]

CPU and 2GB RAM are well worth the upgrade the rest should be consider icing.

 

[Tegeril]

^This

And Band 12 LTE support if you're with T-Mobile.

 

[TheStu]

I don't like the 3d touch on the new iphone. I can't get a feel for it even after a week of using it. Honestly I don't see or feel any improvement over my iphone 6.

Have you adjusted the sensitivity of it?

 

[sourceninja]

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[maddogchen]

i don't even remember to use 3D touch. What do you guys use it the most on?

For checking new emails, I found that the content of the emails haven't even loaded, so when I use 3D touch to preview it, its just blank.

 

[badb0y]

Browsing forums with 3D Touch is forever changed.

 

[Oyeve]

Can it be turned off?

 

[HeXen]

What the heck is 3d touch?

 

[Aikouka]

What the heck is 3d touch?

The ability to detect a "hard press" on the screen vs. just being able to detect that the user touched the screen.

 

[Bunlee]

ugh.. I'm so outdated. so is there much difference having this feature?

 

[saratoga172]

I'm still on a 6 and jailbroke 9.0.2. I'm using forcy and universal touch to simulate 3D Touch. I'm sure it's not the same as a 6s but honestly some of the uses for it are not that great. The mail preview function is cool in theory and to play with but realistically it's not any faster or more convenient than just selecting the email and swiping back.

I do like some of the additional menus on app icons but again don't really find myself using them that much. That's just my personal use case, others may have much more use for it.

Also with the jb and some minor speed tweaks it the phone runs great and I'm less interested in upgrading. First time in a long time I haven't really had that itch.